[Info-vax] Time to turn DECUServe into a mixed VMScluster?

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 6/1/2023 6:34 PM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2023-06-01 14:06, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-06-01, terry-... at glaver.org <terry-groups at glaver.org> wrote:
>>> As a reminder, the VSI FAQ still says "Clustering of VSI OpenVMS for 
>>> x86-64 with VAX/VMS systems is still under investigation at this 
>>> time." See: https://vmssoftware.com/about/v9-qa/
>>
>> That will be unencrypted clustering because otherwise VSI would have to
>> create a clustering compatibillity kit for existing VAX versions, which
>> they are not allowed to do.

They are certainly allowed.

VSI has stated numerous times that they are allowed to release
a VMS VAX version but that they have no intention of doing so
for commercial reasons.

> Says who?
> 
> Why would they not be allowed to create any software for VMS for VAX? I 
> strongly suspect that is an incorrect statement.
> 
> They cannot issue licenses for VMS for VAX without creating a new 
> version of VMS, but that have no bearing on the ability to distribute 
> some other software for VMS on VAX.
> 
> It would be like saying that noone is allowed to create any new software 
> for VMS on VAX. Which would be an extremely weird thing to claim.

VSI could certainly create a chess game for VMS VAX or any
other type of application without any complications.

But clustering is pretty tightly integrated into VMS.

I suspect that they may not be able to change the
cluster protocol without releasing a new VMS version.

Which they can but won't.

Arne